Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Al Iverson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a big, big fan of assessing charges for AUP abuse and making some realistic attempt to try to make sure it's collectible, and otherwise make some attempt to know who you're doing business with. Just out of curiosity,

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Dorn Hetzel wrote: There is a really huge difference in the ease with which payment from a credit card can be reversed if fraudulent, and the amount of effort necessary to reverse a wire transfer. I won't go so far as to say that reversing a wire transfer is impossible, but I would claim it's

RE: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Matthew Huff
The financial services world felt the same pre-9/11. Since then FINRA and SEC regulations enforce Know Your Customer rules that require extensive record keeping. The regulations now are quite burdensome. Given that usage of cloud resources could be used for DDOS and other illegal activities, I

RE: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Fred Reimer
The conversation shifted to breaking MD5 because it was mentioned that one way to prevent the installation of cracked IOS images was to include some sort of DRM or trusted computing chip in new hardware, and have Cisco sign their IOS images (supposedly even the boot EEPROM). This wouldn't be DRM

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Oh, come on... Businesses buy services every day that have to be paid for by methods like wire transfer. We're not talking about making it the only payment method, just the method for deposits for risky services. I wonder what percentage of Amazon E2C customers even want outbound port 25 access

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any attention at all, now, maybe not. Just like port 25, it has plenty of legitimate uses, and some more problematic ones. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM,

RE: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Wise
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 May 2008, Fred Reimer wrote: plaintext (the IOS code) and the hash. It is not trivial to be able to make changes in the code and maintain the same hash value, but there has been at least limited success in doing so. Has there? My

Re: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 29 May 2008 09:18:07 -0400 Fred Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the only easy way to attack this is the MD5 hash. We have a know plaintext (the IOS code) and the hash. It is not trivial to be able to make changes in the code and maintain the same hash value, but there has been

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Dorn Hetzel wrote: Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any attention at all, now, maybe not. Just like port 25, it has plenty of legitimate uses, and some more problematic ones. Equating port

Re: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On May 29, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Jim Wise wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 May 2008, Fred Reimer wrote: plaintext (the IOS code) and the hash. It is not trivial to be able to make changes in the code and maintain the same hash value, but there has been at

RE: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Fred Reimer
This is not a crypto form, so we shouldn't get deep into the MD5 collision debate, but I didn't say HOW there has been limited success. Sorry if the wording of my message was not clear and implied that all you would need were the plaintext and the hash. Fred Reimer, CISSP, CCNP, CQS-VPN, CQS-ISS

RE: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Fred Reimer
The code would presumably be run upon boot from a non-flashable source, which would run the boot ROM code through a check on the crypto chip and only execute it if it passed. You would not put the code that checks the boot ROM on the boot ROM. The new crypto chip would presumably have the

RE: IOS Rookit: the sky isn't falling (yet)

2008-05-29 Thread Jim Wise
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 May 2008, Fred Reimer wrote: The code would presumably be run upon boot from a non-flashable source, which would run the boot ROM code through a check on the crypto chip and only execute it if it passed. You would not put the code that

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
On May 28, 2008 at 23:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Beckman) wrote: Getting someone to fax their ID in takes extra time and resources, and means it might be hours before you get your account approved, and for some service providers, part of the value of the service is the immediacy

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
On May 29, 2008 at 09:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Al Iverson) wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a big, big fan of assessing charges for AUP abuse and making some realistic attempt to try to make sure it's collectible, and otherwise make

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote: Dorn Hetzel wrote: Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any attention at all, now, maybe not. Just like port 25, it has

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Peter Beckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are taking card-not-present credit card transactions over the ...snip hard to charge fradulent customers and also verifying customer identity annoys the customer... points- The goal here is to give abuse a negative expected return. One way to

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Barry Shein wrote: On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote: Dorn Hetzel wrote: Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any attention at all, now, maybe not. Just

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Peter Beckman
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Luke S Crawford wrote: Peter Beckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are taking card-not-present credit card transactions over the ...snip hard to charge fradulent customers and also verifying customer identity annoys the customer... points- The goal here is to give

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
What I really, really, (really), don't understand is what is this perverse urge to argue incessantly that spam and related do little or no harm, are of little consequence, and nothing can be done about it anyhow? You'd think we were discussing ways to prevent hurricanes (and some won't even

APNIC receives 112 /8 and 113 /8

2008-05-29 Thread Leslie Nobile
Forwarding this email on behalf of APNIC... New IPv4 allocation for APNIC (112/8 and 113/8) Dear colleagues The information in this announcement is

Re: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks

2008-05-29 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] .net, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The official spokespeople don't mention it, but there is also a tendency for local officials to divert fuel delivery trucks for their use instead of maintaining communication facilities. How much fuel can you legally carry in drums

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Luke S Crawford
Peter Beckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...snip use snort suggestion This is what I think we should ALL be doing -- monitoring our own network to make sure we aren't the source, via customers, of the spam or DOS attacks. All outbound email from your own network should be scanned by

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Barry Shein wrote: What I really, really, (really), don't understand is what is this perverse urge to argue incessantly that spam and related do little or no harm, are of little consequence, and nothing can be done about it anyhow? You'd think we were discussing ways to prevent hurricanes (and

[NANOG-announce] NANOG43 Reminder

2008-05-29 Thread Betty J. Burke
Dear NANOG Community-- We are looking forward to seeing those who plan to attend NANOG43 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Brooklyn on Sunday. We expect excellent attendance, with almost 400 registered attendees to date. Some important highlights for those still considering

Re: New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

2008-05-29 Thread Jonathan Heinlein
Link change? http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-02.txt On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-01.txt Other than a formatting error in the header (IPv4 Multicast Guidelines)

Comcast Users, Time to Change Your Password

2008-05-29 Thread Crist Clark
I'm getting connection refused from Comcast's POP3 servers, mail.comcast.net. Related to this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/29/comcast_domain_hijacked/ Oh, NetSol... Comcast Let the finger pointing begin. -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New ID: Special Use IPv4 Addresses

2008-05-29 Thread Sean Donelan
The header was corrected an hour or so after my original message, and a revised internet-draft (02) was published. On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jonathan Heinlein wrote: Link change? http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-rfc3330bis-02.txt On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Sean Donelan

Re: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks

2008-05-29 Thread Ian Mason
On 27 May 2008, at 22:18, Sean Donelan wrote: The official spokespeople don't mention it, but there is also a tendency for local officials to divert fuel delivery trucks for their use instead of maintaining communication facilities. Some years ago we managed to get the UK government

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Ian Mason
On 27 May 2008, at 16:33, Robert Bonomi wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 26 21:16:58 2008 Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:46:26 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Colin Alston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: amazonaws.com? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 27, 2008 at

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Mason) writes: On 27 May 2008, at 16:33, Robert Bonomi wrote: Amazon _might_ 'get a clue' if enough providers walled off the EC2 space, and they found difficulty selling cycles to people who couldn't access the machines to set up their compute applications. This

Re: L3/RR incident (Previously Network meltdowns anywhere in US?)

2008-05-29 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, Another case of getting much better help via NANOG than through a NOC. Turns out there was an issue, and it subsequently was fixed in a relatively small timeframe. Atleast a /20 of RR was not visible inside of L3, I'm not sure if it was more. Thanks again to those